Stealing of the Crown by Colonel Blood Sketch of Blood's Life...his disguise and plans for stealing the Regalia...attack on Edwards the Keeper...arrival of Young Edwards.. alarm and seizure of the Ruffians...Blood's daring conduct, when under examination...obtains a pardon, be- comes a bravo, and professes quakerism. Anecdote Footmen forbidden, by the Earl Marshal, to wear swords, or any other offensive weapon. Westminster Abbey.-Monuments of Fox and Pitt Burial vault of the Pitt family...Singular fact respect- ing the Earl of Chatham's Coffin...Fox and Pitt's Monuments described...sketch of their public lives. Civic Hare and Fox-Hunting.— Lord Mayor's Banquet- Hare and Fox-Hunting in St. Mary-le-bone, and genuineness Extracts from Prynne's Histrio- mastix, relating to the old Play-houses of London, and to Women-Actors... Prynne's "Vindication" of his own work, from the "Poetical Decameron" ...Presumed date of the" Retractation"-Arrest of Remarkable instance of sudden death...Pleasing Citizens pressed for Soldiers in Queen Elizabeth's Account of the pomp displayed by Wolsey in pro- 51 52-53 53-56 Ancient History of Serjeant's Inn...some account of Serjeant's Inn, Chancery Lane All the twelve Judges have Chambers here. Anciently belonged to the Serjeant's-at-Law...when Extracts from Breton's "Floorish upon Fancie," in allusion to different parts of the City. 65-66 Projected marriage between the Duke of Anjou and Queen Elizabeth...Stubbe's " Gaping Gulphe," condemned as a Libel... His sentence, petition, and speech when upon the Scaffold, at Westminster, where his right hand was " smitten off," with a butcher's cleaver and a mallet...Speech and con- Origin of the Burse, or Royal Exchange...Built by Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt....some particulars of the ground plot...visited by Queen Elizabeth... Will of Sir Thomas Gresham. Destruction of the Royal Exchange in the Fire of London, and re- building of the same from designs by Mr. Edward Jarman...various reparations here, and descrip- tion of, in its present state. The Gresham Lec- tures. Donald Lupton's descriptions of the "Ex- St. Paul's Church-yard.-Charles the First and his Queen Death of Major Picher... Devotions of the Queen at Paris...Behaviour of the King when at Windsor, one month previously to his decapitation. 97-99 Conflagration in 1748, of nearly 200 houses, includ- 1 100-101 Violent shocks in February and March, 1761. Pre- Original Gate. Inn of the Bishop of Norwich, af- terwards York House, Villiers Street, the resi- dence of the Lord Chancellors Egerton and Bacon, and of the Villiers' Dukes of Buckingham. De- Lydgate's "London Lyckpenny," 105-110 Antiquity of this curious Ballad, which has been Seizure of Elizabeth Canning under Bethlem wall 117-196 of the sufferers... Short account of the same by Reality of this conspiracy...and private Letter re- specting its discovery by Lord Harrington, of Brief memoir of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somer- |